expressing spiritual stuff through art. Art: it's not just the medium, the end result, the imagination or the skill or what people think of it that defines it, it is as much the human process of human re-creation that express the indefinable essence of what it means to be human. To engage and to try and appreciate art is a journey of embracing community; trying to see beyond yourself and your own world to the world somebody else experiences. It is intensely spiritual, it is the language of God. It embodies the mission of God and the human response.

Matthew’S Gospel

This service turned into a mammoth 3 hour reading of Matthew’s Gospel. Rather that one image I attempted to draw a number of images as the reading progressed.

It doesn’t cover every story in the Gospel, this was hard to do as the action came thick and fast at times and because there were no announcements of chapter and verse and I had 2 readings as well I needed to to keep track of where we were in the text so I didn’t miss my turns.

It is interesting to look back at the images now and see how sometimes there appears to be a significance in the way the stories are presented in the images. I like the last one which is about the resurrection but it is also a door way which suggests a ‘going out’ to tell the story beyond the book.